Jeb Bush is more Hispanic than Elizabeth Warren is Indian
April 06, 2015
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During the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race, liberals dismissed as irrelevant Elizabeth Warren's false claim that she was Native American, because they liked her progressive politics.
Most people don't understand, however, what Warren did.
Warren didn't just once check a box on a meaningless form from which she stood no gain.
As detailed at ElizabethWarrenWiki.org, for years Warren listed herself as Native American on questionnaires for a law professor directory used for hiring during the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s, as she was climbing the law school ladder from U. Texas to U. Penn. to Harvard Law School. Warren then stopped that ethnic claim when she received a tenured position at Harvard in 1995.
While Warren claims that the law schools were not aware of her claim and it had no impact on her hiring, Warren has never authorized or directed Harvard to release its entire hiring file.
Somehow, this supposed secret that never was disclosed to Harvard prior to hiring was known to the Harvard Women's Law Journal when Warren was a visiting professor in 1993, which listed Warren as a Woman of Color in Legal Academia. And after hiring, Harvard promptly promoted Warren as a Native American hire. When the Boston Herald broke the story, Warren initially claimed not to know why Harvard touted her that way.
Warren excused this conduct by claiming that she either was Native American or at least thought so because of family lore.